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The Yaal River KelsJiauDiia refers to a group of eight camel 

 thorns (Acdcia (jivaffae), Avhich stood at one time on the site 

 (I I Kheisa, eight; llganab, the camel thorn). The place- 

 name was assimilated to the river-name by the diggers, to 

 whom the latter was familiar. It is of interest to notice in 

 this connection the different forms a Hottentot word mav he 

 called upon to assume when dealt with by Europeans. Here 

 the word llganah, a camel thorn, as we have seen, assumes 

 the form Kamma; then we get it in the form GuanJiop, tlie 

 Hottentot name of the Griqualand West township on the 

 Vaal River now known as Douglas (Freeman : "A Tour in 

 South Africa," p. 232, 1851), and again we get it in the form 

 " Kounohis or Toiinohis " (Baines: " Explorations in South- 

 West Africa," p. 120, 18(34 V tlie form assumed by the 

 Hottentot name of the place in Damaraland known to the 

 colonists as Eietfontein, and to the Hereros as Ofyiiiihonde, 

 wliich also means a camel thorn. 



C— Other Typical H. (-B.) Names. 



" (a) -otiic Group." — The termination -dome (which some- 

 times assumes the form -touir) as it occurs in our place-names, 

 is derived from the Hottentot word daoh, a path, a way. The 

 feminine form daos means a poort, and occurs in the names 

 Giiidaos (Hot. guih, Euphorbia mauritanica ; daos. poort), 

 known as Melkboschpoort, the poort of entrance into a range 

 of mountains near Bethanien ; and Khawdaos (Hot. xami, a 

 lion; daos, a poort "l. Lion Poort, both in Great Naniaqualand. 

 Gantouw or Candauw, the name given by the Hottentots to a 

 kloof or poort in the Hottentots Holland mountains, is derived 

 from the two Hottentot words .'Kani, the eland, and daoh, a 

 path. The " Dagverliaal " of Hartogh's Landtocht (1707) 

 mentions : " De Cloof van het Gebergte die door die Hottentots 

 (Tantomr Averd gen*, en door ons EJaiidspaf." A'ardouir, a 

 mountain in the north of the Clanwilliam district, C.P. (there 

 is another mountain of the same name in the Sneeuwberg 

 range) is derived from the Hottentot %nara, flat (like a roof, 

 etc.); daoh, a path. The name appears in L'u htenstein's 

 account of Kommissaris-Generaal de Mist's " Reis naar het 

 IN'oorden " in 1803: " Aan de overzijde lag een steile berg 

 met de Hottentotnaani yaidouw . . . over de top, die vlak 

 was," etc. Tradouir, a mountain i)ass in the Swellendam 

 district, is a name derived from Hottentot faras, a woman ; daoh, 

 a path. (Cf. Train, the Maiden's River, on'^l tlie Tradia- 

 macquas, mentioned in the " Dag Register " of Hendrik Hop's 

 Landtogt — see Molsbergen, II., ])p. 51-52 — where we get tlie 

 same word taras : " wijders beteekent de naam van Tradiamac- 

 quas by ons wijven of vrouwen volkeren, dog van waar deese 

 benaming herkomstig is, is ons meede niet mogelijk geweest na 

 te vorsschen." Spandau, Lichtenstein's old Prussian soldier 

 notwithstanding (" Travels," I., p. ,367, 1812), is almost 

 certainly a disguised Hottentot name belonging to this group, 

 tliough I have failed to ascertain its original fonn.) 



